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Stretch was crazy expensive. Not remotely viable, and deprecated now.

I think the lake is different, where you use cheap, text (blog) storage.

I hate people that don't have a dateline on posts. I look for this all the time. I even check mine sometimes to see if the post might still be...

OK, so it seems you might not know the basics of Git. I would assume when you create a VS project, you can set make this a git repo. If...

That's interesting. I think I rarely have writer's block. Usually, I have the other issue with 20 things to do and time to write 5. When I try to prompt,...

Go to the folder for the repo with a command line and type "git status". What do you get?

With VS, should be an option to just pull: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/version-control/git-fetch-pull-sync?view=vs-2022#pull

If there...

OPENROWSET will work: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/openrowset-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16

OleDB driver: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=100917

First question: Upgrade.

Doesn't matter, unless you are trying to get an encryption level/algorithm that requires 2016. This is independent of the version outside of that. FWIW, SQL Server 2016 is...

As Morpheus said, "welcome to the real world."

I get that. However, I often find the next person that writes code struggles to easily join here. Joining with all days is really simple.

I like to keep things as simple as possible.  I also want to use the tools that exist.

I would set the schedule like this for the proc in Agent and...

Good to hear.

No idea, I haven't read it, but you can contact the author, or get a sample from Amazon, which should have the TOC

The repeated failures are a denial-of-service attack. That's how those work, as they overload network cards that have to ack or nack each thing. Or they hold open a handle...

Is this causing an issue? Have you traced back who owns the file open requests?

There is some logging stuff as well, if you haven't seen this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/troubleshooting-using-wer-reports